Thank You for work!
Please make ability to launch several copy of app simultaneously. (Like Ladiocst-Cannel-2.app, Ladiocast-Channel-2.app, just like other apps). This is very needed feature! Thank You!

What is “Audiojingle”? Etrecheck found it to be suspicious but probably harmless. I uninstalled Ladiocast and trashed the driver to get rid of it. Should I be worried about it. I don’t like how it shows up in my Sound pane in System Preferences.

Is there a diagnostic mode? The station I broadcast at changed (updated?) it’s Shoutcast server, and Ladiocast no longer successfully connects. Server has same auth / audio setup as previous to upgrade. And BUTT works with all the same settings as Ladiocast. Is there a “status window” or something that allows me to watch the handshake, look at failures, etc?

Mojave’s privacy database daemon (tccd) logged errors and failed to open dialog box to allow microphone (actually all audio inputs) access when the app lacked NSMicrophoneUsageDescription (“Privacy – Microphone Usage Description” on Xcode) in Info.plist, even if it had com.apple.security.device.microphone (“Capabilities” – “Hardware: Microphone” on Xcode) in its entitlements.

I second the request for doing VST insertion. I’ve got some external processors to which I’d love to route my audio prior to broadcast. I’d like to route a selected input to a VST plug-in, then have a selected output draw its input from the output of that VST. Thanks for a great too, even as-is!

2. Please make ability to launch several (up to 4) instances of LadioCast.
Because the shift to Mojave now are almost complete for most users (more than 85%), You able to make this update without suffering possible uncompatibility with Mojave.
Most amateur (and of coarse PRO) Mac-based online radio stations already have more than 1 channels (for example jazz + country music, or classical + jazz music, etc.) and with LadioCast we able to be happy.

You would see the second note is omitted and doesn’t appear on MAS, though it is the main purpose of the release. That is due to the compliance with the Mac Developer Program License Agreement which prohibits mentioning pre-release versions of the Apple Software. (Actually I didn’t expect 0.12.5 built by the pre-released Xcode to get released before Mojave.) Anyway see another face of LadioCast in the dark mode there. Also Make sure you allow LadioCast to access your microphone under the new security:

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Cheers.

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P.S.
I noticed that macOS Mojave’s new privacy database needs more description about the app’s usage of microphone.
I will make another post after the next LadioCast 0.12.6 passed the apple’s app review and making sure its listing on the privacy section.

Hi, I am using LadioCast for my radio station running 24/7, however often have “disconnected” alerts popping up requiring a re connect to the streamers. Can you indicate what is going wrong?
Thanks in anticipation.

Hello Mark,
The alert is popped up when the current connection gets broken and immediate reconnection also has failed. If you can, test other servers from the same client, especially a server in a local network, for investigation.

Hi, I just started using Ladio Cast and it seems very useful for me.
I need to know how to auto-connect everytime the app launches. Is this possible, by apple script, or some other method? This is because I’m using airtime pro for playout and it let’s me go live whenever a connection is made (when the connect button is hit), so I need to make the app auto-connect at specific times.

I need a way to get whats playing from Algoriddm’s djay Pro 2. The file is inside the djay Pro 2 package but easily accessible at /Music/djay Pro 2/djay Media Library.djayMediaLibrary in the NowPlaying.txt file. I have no idea how to script. Does anyone have a script or something to pull the whats playing info and feed it into LadioCast automatically every time the track changes ?

Unfortunately djay pro doesn’t have that. The whats playing is kept in a package file located at /Music/djay Pro 2/djay Media Library.djayMediaLibrary/NowPlaying.txt where djay Media Library.djayMediaLibrary is the package. Ideally it should be possible to point Ladiocast at a freely chosen directory to pull over the information directly.

When I broadcast in HE AAC under 80 kbps it goes well, without any problems. But when I increase the bitrate above 80 kbps it gives an error “Internal error on encoding values.” All works well when I change ”format” to AAC or mp3. I use osx 10.13.4 Any ideas how to solve this problem and make it possible to broadcast in my preferred HE-AAC 96 kbps? Thank you for all your great work!

Hi Johan,
The error has been caused by Apple Core Audio’s HE AAC encoder which LadioCast uses as well as AAC. IMHO AAC is not so bad in that bitrate, though I don’t know the reason of the error so far.

Radiologik DJ has track info sent to LadioCast with a simple checkbox now in Preferences–Publishing. I’m doing a new video now on setup of Radiologik with LadioCast including using Soundflower at http://radiologik.com

The checkbox works for most people but not special cases. I was not aware you could run more than one LadioCast. LadioCast has 2 possible streams but I think the metadata is the same on both. If you can address separate LadioCast applications running, you would have to use the older method of file publishing from Radiologik DJ and then the NowPlayingChanged AppleScript in order to address the name of each different LadioCast application distinctly. But can LadioCast have multiple instances of the application running and have distinct settings and preferences? Radiologik can with special instructions but most apps don’t.

Yes, You are absolutely right. 8 streamers.
In next month I doing the test on how number of streamers (both for Icecast2 and SHOUTcast servers, sorry RIP RTMP) affect performance…
Are You interesting in results ?

I’m trying to connect Ladiocast to Icecast on OS X 10.13.6. Ladiocast successfully receives my USB audio, and Icecast successfully starts. My problem is finding the proper way to get the parameters for the two to talk to each other, so that I can connect to the computer and hear the audio. There are too many items in the icecast.xml file for me to be sure of the minimum necessary items to do this. I understand about ports, but I’m not sure of mount points, and as I’m the only user, so I don’t really need usernames or passwords. Any suggestions appreciated.

I’ve set up the config with localhost for Ladiocast and Icecast, and it works fine on a browser pointing to localhost. If I try to point to the actual IP of my host on my LAN, I can’t connect. I think it must be a simple problem, but I can’t track it down. Thanks.

Sergei, Thanks for your offer but I solved the problem. Kawauso’s question about the firewall made me realize that although it wasn’t a firewall problem, I occasionally get problems from Sophos Anti-Virus. Once I whitelisted the port there all works fine.

Hi,
Do you plan to implement Ogg FLAC for streaming, too? This would be great for lossless streaming since some receivers do not work with Ogg PCM but would work with Ogg FLAC.
Thanks for the great piece of software.

Hi streamy68,
When once requested and considering implementation of FLAC, ALAC etc., I’ve found these losslesses would lose ladiocast audio bit resolution “before” their compression. So I implemented the little known Ogg PCM instead. Nothing lost.
Cheers.

Thanks for your prompt answer. I’m asking for Ogg FLAC because I want to stream my Macs soundflower2 output locally to Roon’s internet radio input. But Roon only accepts Ogg FLAC or lossy (Mp3, AAC), but not Ogg PCM. I could not find yet any MacOS streaming software that would support Ogg FLAC and I’m not interested in lossy streaming. In Roon I do room correction therefore my interest to stream HQ audio to Roon. Any suggestion?

No, AAC is a compressed lossy format like MP3, whereas FLAC is compressed lossless. After decompression FLAC represents 16bit and 24bit content bitperfect same as PCM. https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html#general__native_vs_ogg . Therefore my interest in Ogg FLAC, not to be confused with most other Ogg formats that indeed are lossy. Again like Ogg PCM (real PCM in Ogg container) Ogg FLAC is lossless FLAC in an Ogg container that is better for streaming than FLAC itself.

NOTE: I highly recommend before anyone decide investing time/money in some coding routine, note that most of all manufacturers of hardware players (in cars, in home, portable) last years point attention to compatibility with MP3 (due a huge installbase before this time) and AAC/ALAC (due most of modern streaming services broadcasting in AAC/ALAC).

You may enjoy to playing with old formats, especially if You have a time and a passion to this, or bargain old device from Craigslist/eBay of coarse… :)

Hello Davide!
Thank you for the suggestion about LadioCast. About reconnection, LadioCast implicitly reconnect once when it drops that. More needs some Apple Script, intending the users to make.
Cheers!

i don’t think i can create an aggregate by separating but i’m thinking about trying 2 things: getting another interface and using the 2 channels off that and using the 2 channels ladiocast picks up from the tascam but i’m not sure what the output would look like. maybe i would have to make the output aggregate. i’m confused about the purpose of the auxiliary outputs. what is the purpose?

What you can do with the auxiliary outputs of ladiocast are same as of the main output except that only the main is used internally as inputs of all the streamers.
Check Soundflower virtual audio kernel extension if you are trying to create complex audio routing with macOS audio inputs & outputs.

Hello, just downloaded the app trying to connect to Radio.co but getting the error message -
Failed to connect. Check the network environment or the connection configuration. I’ve checked my connection settings over again but still failed to connect. Any ideas. Sorry if a solutions was already posted, i couldn’t find it. Thanks

Perfect little app, one suggestion. make an input 5 as a mic only input, in addition have a section next to it that has ON AIR, and have it so that a hotkey (choosable) can mute the mic (off air) and unmute (on air). then be perfect.

Dear Ben! You try to extend ENCODER/INGESTOR (that LadioCAst exactly are) to crossfading and other functions that originally Radiologik DJ (from Radiologik Music Radio Automation Suite) already have. Also MegaSeg also doing the same, but “Prep” function from Radiologik working much much better. Why not using the proper app ?